Scientists paint best portrait yet of closest known fast radio burst By Meghan Bartels Scientists have uncovered more details about perhaps the most famous repeating fast radio burst, a mysterious phenomenon astronomers cannot yet explain.
Dying white dwarf stars may explode like a nuclear bomb By Charles Q. Choi When a white dwarf star explodes as a supernova, it may be detonating like a nuclear weapon on Earth, a new study finds.
Can a night owl turn into an early bird? By Tara Santora What steps can night owls take to become early birds?
Russia is going back to the moon this year By Meghan Bartels Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to the moon.
Why were the ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats? By Benjamin Plackett If cats were loved, why were so many sacrificed?
US drug overdose deaths surged during COVID-19 lockdowns By Yasemin Saplakoglu U.S. overdose deaths surged during the first half of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to preliminary data from the CDC.
Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' close to tipping point, unmanned sub reveals By Ben Turner The glacier could be melting at the key points anchoring it to the land.
Millions of tons of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima will be dumped into the sea By Brandon Specktor The Japanese government announced plans to dump more than 1 million tons of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, beginning in two years.
Scientists paint best portrait yet of closest known fast radio burst By Meghan Bartels Scientists have uncovered more details about perhaps the most famous repeating fast radio burst, a mysterious phenomenon astronomers cannot yet explain.
Dying white dwarf stars may explode like a nuclear bomb By Charles Q. Choi When a white dwarf star explodes as a supernova, it may be detonating like a nuclear weapon on Earth, a new study finds.
Alphabet's 'missing link' possibly discovered By Owen Jarus An alphabetic inscription written on a jar fragment found at the site of Tel Lachish in Israel and dating back around 3,450 years may provide a "missing link" in the history of the alphabet.
Knife-wielding spider god mural unearthed in Peru By Mindy Weisberger Archaeologists in Peru are taking steps to preserve and study a 3,200-year-old temple painted with a mural of a spider deity holding a knife.
US drug overdose deaths surged during COVID-19 lockdowns By Yasemin Saplakoglu U.S. overdose deaths surged during the first half of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to preliminary data from the CDC.
Man's energy drink habit lands him in the hospital with heart failure By Rachael Rettner The findings add to a growing body of evidence linking energy drink consumption with heart problems.
Trained dogs can smell coronavirus in your pee By Yasemin Saplakoglu Dogs can sniff out SARS-CoV-2 in urine samples with 96% accuracy, according to a proof-of-concept study.
Why were the ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats? By Benjamin Plackett If cats were loved, why were so many sacrificed?
As many as 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes once stalked Earth By Laura Geggel Digging deep into T.rex's history helped researchers determine how many of these apex predators ever existed.
To become queen, these ants shrink their brains and balloon their ovaries (then, they reverse it) By Ben Turner The researchers say that brain plasticity like this may not just be a trick of the ants. Other animals could do it too, and we may only just be noticing.
Bizarre 'worm tornado' in New Jersey has scientists baffled By Mindy Weisberger A resident of Hoboken, New Jersey spotted the unusual worm spiral after days of heavy rainfall.
Could humans ever be venomous? By Stephanie Pappas Humans have what it takes to make venom, but it may not be worth the trouble.
What if humans didn't have an appendix? By Charles Q. Choi What might life be like then if everyone lacked an appendix? That organ may not be a useless artifact of evolution after all.
Can a night owl turn into an early bird? By Tara Santora What steps can night owls take to become early birds?
Was the 'forbidden fruit' in the Garden of Eden really an apple? By Ashley P. Taylor It could have been a fig, grapes, citron, a pomegranate or even wheat.
String of code sells for $69 million By Nicoletta Lanese A unique piece of code verifies the authenticity of the digital art piece.
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity snaps 1st color photo on Red Planet By Mike Wall The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper captured its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered to the Martian dirt by the Perseverance rover.
Lab-made hexagonal diamonds are stronger than the real thing By Ben Turner The scientists used a soundwave and a laser beam to measure the diamonds before they disintegrated.
3 Russian nuclear submarines simultaneously punch through Arctic ice By Tom Metcalfe Here's why the naval maneuver is so tricky.
